Madison — Natural Resources Secretary Cathy Stepp on Tuesday defended Gov. Scott Walker's plan to turn the Natural Resources Board into an advisory panel, instead of one that makes policy, even as she acknowledged she had not been consulted on the proposal in advance.

"I feel that it's extra layers," Stepp said of the board in a briefing to the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee. "I think it's duplicative."(58)

In a federal lawsuit in Milwaukee, U.S. Bank is asking a judge to declare that the bank - not the government - has a right to more than $5 million that was generated when assets of an insolvent business borrower were sold. | Jan. 26, 2013»Read Full Article(2)

Two leaders of nonprofit organizations in Wisconsin will have a chance to improve their strategic management skills at Harvard University with a scholarship provided by the Harvard Business School Club of Wisconsin.

The winners of the $5,000 scholarship will attend the "Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management" seminar July 14-20 at Harvard Business School. The scholarship covers books, tuition and room and board. | Jan. 26, 2013»Read Full Article(1)

The oil boom taking place across the northern Great Plains may soon make its way to the waters of the Great Lakes.

Petroleum refiner Calumet Specialty Products Partners is exploring whether to build a crude oil loading dock on Lake Superior, near its Superior, Wis., refinery, to ship crude oil on the Great Lakes and through connecting waterways, the company said Friday. | Jan. 26, 2013»Read Full Article(52)